Thread: Error with Library on Windows partition while running Calibre in Xubuntu linux
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Old 06-28-2014, 07:49 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Adoby View Post
Yes.

Stop using the same calibre library in both Windows from Linux.

It will corrupt the library and may cause you to lose metadata and books.

The reason is that Windows and Linux have different case sensitivity. In Linux "Book.epub" and "book.epub" are two different filenames. In Windows they are identical. This will slowly cause data-rot in the library.

I don't know the exact cause of the error you showed. But it might be related to differences in the filesystems. Perhaps Linux has problems using the ntfs filsystem?
Corruption almost guaranteed: Yes Been there and I am still finding/cleaning remnant files from years ago. Don't go there. If you do, don't come here moaning .

Ubuntu and Mint can deal with LOCAL NTFS just fine (ant least for non-intensive file operations like playing MP3's from the NTFS folder)
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